Four certificates from Ace Securities Corp. Home Equity Loan Trust series 2005-SL1 have been downgraded by Moody's Investors Service.The downgrades were as follows: class M-6, from Baa2 to Ba2; class M-7, from Baa3 to B3; class B-1, from Ba1 to Caa1; and class B-2, from Ba2 to Caa2. "The actions are based on the analysis of the credit enhancement provided by subordination, overcollateralization, and excess spread relative to expected losses," Fitch said. The transaction is backed by second-lien, fixed-rate subprime mortgage loans.
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Ohio-based Liberty Home Mortgage joins several companies who started using a more modernized FICO credit score for nonconforming mortgage originations recently.
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The CFPB has dissolved the Office of Supervision, Enforcement and Fair Lending and eliminated the job of associate director in a move that impacts how it designates nonbanks for supervision.
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The plan that the Federal Housing Finance Agency floated calls for Freddie Mac to actively invest in some new closed-end seconds as cash-out refinancing subsides.
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The push comes amid what one expert highlighted as lax funding efforts for two Department of Housing and Urban Development grant programs.
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Conventional lending drove volumes higher, particularly in the purchase market, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.
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Net charge-offs at the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank increased by more than 80% in the first quarter compared with a year earlier. BofA executives say that the rising losses were in line with the bank's risk appetite.
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